You know, when you see it laid out like this, the fact that the Greens have 14% in the polling is pretty impressive. Imagine how'd they do with ACT level funding!!! As a reminder, matched donations are on for the Green party, donate now for twice the impact here 👉🏼 www.greens.org.nz/amp_up_our_c...

Yep, put your effort where your mouth is (if at all humanly possible). I’ll be doing some phone calls with them on the weekends ✅💚🍀🚀

There’s no political battle, there’s a media beat up, the same media that ignores the cost of govt cuts on us and glosses over Willis’ fudging of figures. The truth: “This would actually reduce the cost of living for a large number of people," and the cost is doable & peanuts. 1/n #nzpol

A handy set of visualisations for anyone who cares.

No records kept?? Goldsmith believes he can say, do and act as he pleases and given his previous behaviour - illegally appointing HRC commissioners for one - it’s likely imo that hes been very directional to RNZ. We will never know because he’s doing it behind closed doors with no records. #nzpol

I don't think many people understand how much we are paralleling the US in the contemptuous hijack of democracy and corrosive shutdown of evidence and knowledge bases. It's like there is a hard right box of chocolates and we are just eating them in a different order. #NZPol

The Pro-Guns & MachineGuns Lobbyist Minister, #ACT’s #NicoleMcKee has stopped trying to reduce #alcohol harm which costs NZ $9.1billion & lots of social harm, & is now making things easier for BigAlcohol #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/in-dept...

Not a Living Wage Employer among them. They trumpet their charitable giving when if they paid their fair share of taxes many of the charities wouldn’t be needed. Nothing to celebrate here unless, like them, unfettered greed, gross inequality, and buying political favours is your thing. #nzpol

MIT open learning has a course on heavy metal music ocw.mit.edu

#WinstonPeters is, in many ways, New Zealand's #NigelFarage. They have both built enduring careers by curating grievance. This is politically effective. It is also corrosive. #nzpol #AtlasNetwork open.substack.com/pub/bryanbru...

The climate denial chickens are coming home to roost. We all pay for the free pass given to the dairy industry for its emissions. New Zealand handed a $5b bill for its inaction on climate newsroom.co.nz/2026/06/14/n... #nzpol

Serious plea to politicians and parties re your social media channels: just delete the hateful shit. You don't have to be a platform for bigotry. And yes, I have DONE this as a job, I know it takes effort, but if you set clear standards for your online spaces the community will follow suit.

ACT/NZF/National don’t want protection for workers anywhere. “A total of 406 members including the governments of China, Japan, Germany, France and South Africa voted in favour of the employment standards convention while 8, including the United States and New Zealand, voted against.” #nzpol

NGL I seriously thought the white flag was a Klansman attending that meeting and I wasn’t even surprised

Dear Aotearoa New Zealand, why is this not us? Oh wait I think I know why …😡

The govt consulted a senior law professor who told them that legislating over Smith vs Fonterra would provide "immunity from accountability" for corporate defendants, and was inconsistent with its own Regulatory Standards Bill and common law rights They did it anyway. www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...

interesting read

World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025, report finds JPMorgan Chase leads 65 banks making decisions incompatible with restraining rising temperatures, researchers say www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Lots of people to me: Springsteen is the next Woody Guthrie! We’ve been needing someone like him for so long! Me: (makes a playlist for them with almost the entire catalogue of Good Riddance, Propaghandi & Living Color and a dash of Tracy Chapman, Spanish Love Songs, and The Smith Street Band)

Adding a row and selecting “YES” on the spreadsheet being kept asking the question “Are they actually a death cult?”

Yep. I made my hoodie as affordable as I could, but they cost a lot as blanks and even more to print

The austerity doom loop

Awful truth, unknown to 99% of the population... NZ Govt adopted an economic management model in the 1980s that MAKES SURE: 1. We always have tens of thousands of kiwis on the dole. 2. People with work / little work live in abject poverty that keeps them desperate for crap jobs. Why? [🧵 1/n]

I scoffed at the highlighting of OIA cost numbers being so high until I saw this and now I think between this and the constant attempts at a COVID conspiracy gotcha there is a wee bit of room for some change maybe possibly per chance I dunno

This very minute 94% of NZ generation is renewable. Every example in the article is from countries struggling to meet energy needs &/or substandard infrastructure. Just make it STOP

It’s not just early childhood. Generally preventative measures and investments whether education or health or anything early on yields better outcomes and more savings later. So when it’s govt policy to not do that explicitly, you can assume increasing costs and creating poor outcomes IS the goal.

Internet PSA: If you’re not paying for it, YOU are the product. If you ARE paying for it, you’re likely STILL the product with slightly different TOU/a bit less money. There are very few exceptions, and remember regulatory beats TOU every time. Only you can decide what your risk tolerance is.

National: corrupt pay rises for their mates; austerity for everyone else. Kick them out. Kick them all out. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/...

The significant rise of the far-right in New Zealand after the 2023 general election. In conversation with Peter Bale and Bernard Hickey on The Hoon, broadcast on 28 May 2026. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEUF... #nzpol

Elizabeth Rata, who is guiding Erica Stanford on how to "stop de-colonisation's success" in Aotearoa, has been awarded Kings' Honours, along with notables like Barry Soper. It's clear what the agenda of the National, ACT and NZ First Coalition really is about from top to toe

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Don’t let the super rich buy (and dismantle) our democracy. Lots of small donations can make a difference! If every person who voted for me to be MP for Rongotai in 2023 gave $5 now, that would cover most of our Wellington Bays campaign costs this year. www.greens.org.nz/wlb_donate_g...

Oh sure just grab four screwdrivers and push all of these tabs in at the same time with those four screwdrivers. I think they forgot the part about becoming proficient with your toes.

CLEAN. THE. FSCKING. AIR. Manurewa High School to shut early, with too many staff sick www.rnz.co.nz/news/educati...

Well, budget data is a proper mix-up! A highlights 🧵 What a magical presentation! Govt have the press gallery focused on the feted return to surplus, but the data presented excludes borrowing for capital. Include that, and the 2027 borrowing requirement is higher than the average over covid! 🤣 [1/n]

Again, the *country* *IS* the bunker/bolthole. Has to stop.

It's getting overlooked how big a red flag it is that RNZ CEO Paul Thompson resigned last week. It's difficult for NZ to see how close we are tracking to the US because of scale and different system, but we have an increasingly lawless and authoritarian Govt trying to remake NZ for the richlisters.

I think it’s officially rainbow season?

This is shit nobody wants to talk about. The healthy abandoning the ill.

Nothing to see just the Prime Minister & Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand threatening NZ journalists within 24 hrs of each other. We are $1 shop America

This level of lying and corruption needs to be at the top of the news feed #nzpol

Not only did the coalition government dump all the work done towards safer online spaces (partly in response to the Inquiry), it gutted funding to disinformation research and cut staff that oversaw online threats, like these. #nzpol www.rnz.co.nz/news/communi...

I mean thats a bit fucking dodge

@lanpham-nz.bsky.social bill to ban mining on public conservation land gets drawn from the biscuit tin Vote @greens.org.nz 💚 #nzpol

Doesn’t even need AI to hallucinate slop they’re doing just fine without it😜

#NZFirst’s risk-free way to stoke the cultural coals: The populist party is submitting & withdrawing members’ bills at a blistering pace, grabbing headlines each time without actually changing the law #nzpol #conjob #VoteThemOut newsroom.co.nz/2026/05/20/n...

Tapping the sign… bsky.app/profile/wade...

Drones and boats don’t pay tax and cannot contribute to the economy in the way 9000 public servants can and do. Wages increase the tax base, defence equipment does not. Minister of Defence Chris Penk announces $1.6b investment for ageing maritime fleet and drones www.rnz.co.nz/news/politic...